On becoming an electrician
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Hatorade
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6 inch would be nuts… that was all 1 inch and a 10 foot stick was heavy enough.
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I was still really green - Started new in Jan of that year and we were there when Hurricane Hugo hit NC which was in Sept of that same year so some of this may be confused. What I recall was 6" wasn't even a standard electrical conduit size and it all had to be special ordered. We had a hog head extension and a bar that looked like the drive shaft of a car that attached it to the regular threader. We being redneck electric had of course jumped the foot control across so it wasn't needed and one of the guys got his arm caught and almost ripped off before someone heard him calling to unplug the thing. This was also for aircraft that use 400 hz (cycle) power that had all kinds of special equipment as well. If I knew wtf I was doing it would have been way cooler.
Hatorade
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Dang, those are torque monsters, I am very aware of it being able to twist my arm off. That said no idea how he managed it.
BrutulTM
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One of my friend's kids went to school to be a lineman and he has a big hardon for climbing those towers but now he's working at Lowe's so I guess it's not working out for him. Wouldn't catch me doing that shit. The ones that work on the big power lines are always on the road and if you're a lineman for the local power company here, you get to go out in blizzards and try to find downed power lines which also sounds terrible.
ToeMissile
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Not a lineman but worked for the power company for a few years, now starting with a large contractor. Lineman work is no joke, pretty easy to get yourself killed if you aren’t paying attention or taking short cuts. I think 1 person has died in the field every year I’ve been in the industry so far.
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Yup I had a license that said I could work on high voltage but that shit I 100% subbed out. Nope uh-uh fuck that. Anything that has to slow down to shock you is not for me.
Closest I ever did to line work was doing the grounds on the primary side of a utility XFMR. But we had a lineman watching us to make sure we did it right.
Closest I ever did to line work was doing the grounds on the primary side of a utility XFMR. But we had a lineman watching us to make sure we did it right.